Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-09-30

JACK ana say IL was persecution that gave th9
world the sllvaton Of the GOSPEL Ths r,bald
moskery, the huagering and thirsting the un-
Just ttial and ignOminsous death where all toe
forces OF sfurywas hurled against the cross
was the intro iucton CT tlat F.llrlol wbicd
s vet 30 IL the earth's deliverance from guilt
ana suffering anu her everlasting entnrone-
Llent among tine principallties OF h,aven.
4h5 state has sometimes sail 10 the hurch:
Come, let me take Your hand and / viii helm
you" What has been the RESULT The Church
has gone back and has lost its estate of
holiness and has become Ineffective. At
pther times The state has slil 10 the Church:
" i will crush you.n What has been tue re-
suit Alter tho storms have spent their fury,
the church, SO far from having lost any of ios
force, has increased, anA is worth inllIiUelv
more atter the assault than before it. The
church is far mora indebted to the opposition
Q. civil government IT, a to IT'S approval
the fires OF the staSe have only been
the torches which Christ held in His
hand, by the light of ya,ch the church hea-
nlarAShsd to her present position. In the
sound of racks and inp.em .nts of torture /
hear the runbltng OF the wheels of the Gospel
chariot. Scafoids of mar5Yrdom have besl
the s5alrs uy wllcn the churcn has assembled.
Aqua FORTS is tne best test of pure gold
Furthermore; our sub ject imp.eSssS us that
sins viii come 10 exposure. Long, long ago
had these brothers sold joseph into Egypt
AhSf LeSt OoNCd Vi ttAu ~ was
profound secret well kept by the brothers.
But suddenly the secret Is out The OH
father hears that his son is in Egypt, having
been sold there by the malice of his
own brothers, How their cheeks must
have burned and their hearts sunk
OF the flaming ont of tnis sup
pressed crime, The smallest iniquity has
! a thousand tongues, and they will blab out an
exposure. Saul was sent to destroy the
! Canaanites, their sheep and the oxen. But
when he got down there among the pastures
he saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat to
kill, and so he thought he would steal them.
He drove them toward home, but stopped
to report to the prophet how well he had
executed his commission, when in the dis.
tance the sheep began to bleat and the oxen
to below. The secret was out and Samuel
said to the blushing and confounded Saul:
| "What means the bleating of the sheep that
l hear and the lowing of the cattlem Aye, my
hearers, you cannot keep an iniquity quiet
At just the wrong time the sheep will
hleat and the oxen will below. Achan can
uot steai rne BaoylonIsn garment without
| getting stoned to death, nor Benedict Arnold
! bctray his country without being eXecrated
! for all time. Look over the police arrest,
| these thieves, these burglars, these 6dulterers,
these counterfeiters, these highwaylnen,
! these assassins. They all thought
| they could bury their imiquity SC
| deep down that it would never come to resur.
rection But thore was some shoe that an
| swered to the print in the sand, some false
keys found in possession, some bloody knife
| that whispered of the deed and the pub
! lie Indignation, and the anathema of
outraged law hurled him into the Tombs
or hoisted him on the gallows At the closa
of the battle between the Dauphin of Franco
and the Hevetians, Burchard Monk was so
eated with the victory that he lifted his
/ 10 In M n+ tl,Dy1 n
wounded soldier hurled a stone that struck
his uncovered forehead and he fell. Sin will
always leave some spot exposed, and there is
40 safety i'll iniquity. Francis the
| First, King of France was discussing how it
vas DesU TO get MS army into Italy. Amaril,
/ The court fool sprang out from the corner
and said to the king and his staff officers:
'You had better be thinking how you will
get your army back out of Italy after once
you have entered" In other words, it is easier
Tor us to get into SIN than to get out
Of it. Whitefield was riding on horseback in
q lonely way with some missionary money in
a sack fastened to the saddle bags. A high
waynlan sprang out from the thicket and put
his hand out toward the gold, when White
field turned upon him and said: That belongs
! to the Lord Jesus Christ, touch itif you dare, "
and the villain fell back empty handed into
the thicket. Oh, the power Of conscience
If offended, 1t becomes Gods ayenging minis
ter. Do not think that you can hide any
great and protracted Sin in your hearts. In
an unguarded moment it will slip oil the lip,
or some slight occasion may for a moment
set ajar this door of hell that you wanted to
keep closed But suppose that in
this life you hide it, and you get along with
that tranSgresson burning in your heart, as q
ship on fire within for days may hinder the
flame from bl eaking out by keeping down the
hatchways, yet at LAST, in the Judgment, that
iniquity will blaze out before the throne OF
God and the universe.
Furthermore, learn from this subject the
inseparabIe connection between all events
however remote Lord Hastings was be-
headed one year after he had caused the death
of the Queen children, in the very month";
the very day, the very hour and the very mo
1n menti Nth, There is w9nderfgl precision in in
only one thought of God Those
things which seem fragmentary an
iso.atei are only different parts Of that
one great thought. How far apart seemed
these two eyents-Joscph sold to the
Arabian merchants and the rulership of
Egypt Yet you see in what mysteriou:
way God connected the two in one pan. sc
all events are linked together, You
who are aged can look, back anG
group together q thousand things in
your life that once seemed isolated
One undivided chain of events reached from
the Garden of Eden to the cross Of Calvary
and thus up to heaven. There is relation
between the smallest insect that huns In tn,
summer air and the archangel on hi
throne God can trace q direct ancestra
line from the blue jay that last spring
built its nest in q tree behind the houst
to some one of that flock of birds, which
when Noah hoisted the ark's window, with
whirr and dash of bright wings went out tC
sing over Mount Ararat. The tulips thai
h1CpTnpH tbic in, tba 40 had
nursed OF last winters snow-hakes The fur
therest star on one side the universe could no
look to the furtherest star on the othe
side and say: You are no relation to me-
, for from that bright orb a voice Of high
would ring across the heavens responding
eyes, yes; we are sisters" Sir Sidney Smitl
in prison was playing lawn tennis in tin
yard and the bail few over the wall Another
ball containing letters was thrown bacl.
and so communication was opened witt
the outside world, and Sir Sidney escape,
In time to defeat Bonaparte's Egyptian ex
petition What small incident Connecte,
with what vast result! Sir I.oLert Peel from
pattern he drew ON the back of O pewta
dinner plate got tie suggestions Of tia
which led to the important inven
ton by which calico is printed. Moth
ing in Gods universe swings at loos
ends. Accidents are only Gods wa,
of turning leaf in the book of his eterna
DEGREES. from cur cradle TO our grave ther
is path all marked out. Each event in ou
lifeis connected with every other event il
our life. Our loss may be the mcst direc
road TO our gain. Our defeats and victorie
are twin brothers. The whole direction o
our life was changed by somethin,
which at the time seemed to you
triAe, while some occurrence whic
seemed tremendous affected you but little
The Rev. Dr. Kennedy, of Basking Ridge
New Jersey, went into his pulpit one Sat
bath and by strange freak OF memory for